jakman85andClaude Opus 5 87c3d83dff fix(conformance): placeholder-guard-coupling actually RUNS — it was skipping forever
`conformance/tests/l0-static/placeholder-guard-coupling` (R-ENV-02, R-STATE-03) exited 3
SKIPPED on every gate run since it landed, because its check keyed its whole existence on
`bootstrap/standup.sh`. Measured, not assumed: that file has NEVER been on `main` — there is
no deletion commit for it anywhere; it landed only on unmerged prod-standup branches
(`work/prod-standup-campaign`, `prod/*`, `feat/prod-hardening`). It was planned and never
merged, not removed. SKIPPED is not green, and a permanently-skipped incident-derived test is
the quiet version of the failure it was written to prevent.

The skip was also hiding a RED. Run against the real `standup.sh` from
`work/prod-standup-campaign`, the old check FAILED 2 of 34 assertions — false positives from
treating the empty string as placeholder-shaped for knobs cluster-vars authors empty on
purpose (`BACKUP_CREDENTIALS_SUFFIX`, `VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX`, both `""` on dev and both
documented there as load-bearing). It would have false-blocked the merge landing its own input.

NOT deleted — the hazard is not gone. Split into two halves, one of which needs no guard:

  HALF A (always runs): no environment overlay ships a placeholder-shaped EFFECTIVE
  cluster-vars value; an empty effective value is STATED by the overlay rather than inherited
  in silence; a LOUD base sentinel is explicitly overridden by every overlay. This is the
  2026-09-05 outcome asserted at the source instead of at the guard — if prod's
  S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT is never a placeholder, velero cannot be pointed at a hostname that does
  not exist. Input surface is `clusters/`, all of it on `main`.

  HALF B (self-activating): the real predicate extracted and executed against those same
  values, the consumer trace, and the mid-string anchoring property.

The check NEVER exits 3 again, and the guard is DISCOVERED by content rather than hardcoded:
any tracked `*.sh` defining `<name>_is_placeholder()` is found, so a guard landing at
`bootstrap/standup.sh` — or moved into a sourceable library, the remedy the check already
recommends — activates HALF B with no edit to the test. Two files defining it is a FAIL. When
no guard exists the gap is printed loudly every run instead of swallowed as a skip.

LOUD vs EMPTY is the correction that makes it honest in both modes: a loud placeholder is
always a defect in an overlay, while `""` is held to the explicitness rule instead — and still
counts as a placeholder for a knob a guard covers, because a `""` case-arm is the guard
author's declaration that empty is not a usable target.

Proof, all reverted: 84 assertions and exit 0 on `main`; prod S3_BACKUP_ENDPOINT set to the
literal `https://TBD-R2-ACCOUNT-ID.r2.cloudflarestorage.com` FAILS (A1); deleting dev's
explicit VELERO_BACKUP_PREFIX op so it inherits `""` FAILS (A2); a LOUD base BULK_NFS_SERVER
with prod's override deleted FAILS 2/86 (A1+A3); and with the real `standup.sh` present,
reverting `s3_is_placeholder` to the `TBD-*` PREFIX glob FAILS 12/110 (B3 anchoring). With the
pristine `standup.sh` the check PASSES at 110 assertions where the old one failed 2 of 34.

L0 layer: 14 checks, 14 PASS, 0 SKIP, 0 FAIL (was 13 PASS / 1 SKIP). Coverage unchanged —
R-ENV-02 and R-STATE-03 both still list this test, 49/51 with the same 2 gaps.

Also:
  * `ci/touched-requirements.sh` — `bootstrap/*` -> R-STATE-03 R-GITOPS-01 is KEPT, its stale
    comment corrected. It claimed standup.sh "carries the placeholder guards", describing a
    file that is not here; R-STATE-03 there is ANTICIPATORY. Deleting the entry would leave the
    change that lands a placeholder guard selected by nothing.
  * `ci/tests/touched-requirements.test.sh` — new path-map section (12 assertions, was 8)
    locking `bootstrap/*` and `clusters/*`, so removing either entry is a test failure rather
    than a silent loss of selection. All three ci/tests pass (12 + 31 + 15).
  * `docs/BULK-NFS-STORAGE.md` §7 — its "nothing in the gate currently refuses a
    placeholder-shaped overlay value" is no longer true; corrected.
  * Scope re-audited: still deliberately requirement-scoped, not whole-repo. Every path that
    can break it attributes a requirement it declares.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
2026-09-13 00:10:37 -05:00

home-network-k3s-impl

Implementation of the home k3s + Longhorn platform. This repo holds the reconciled artifacts (Flux config, Kustomize overlays, KubeVirt/Helm manifests, ServiceDefinitions, Kyverno policies, Chainsaw conformance tests, CI). It is driven by — and subordinate to — the read-only specification at ../home-network-k3s.

Rules (from the spec — non-negotiable)

  • The spec is read-only. Never modify anything under ../home-network-k3s. Implement against it; escalate spec problems, don't edit them (spec AGENTS.md §11, R-TEST-06).
  • Done = a green, reproducible, requirement-tagged conformance test — never "merged," never a manual demo (spec docs/14, agents/definition-of-done.md).
  • No work on main. Every change is a feature branch merged into main (spec CONTRIBUTING.md).
  • No plaintext secrets — SOPS-encrypted only (spec docs/07).
  • Phase discipline — only build what the active roadmap phase authorizes (spec roadmap/phases.md).

Layout

infra/          node provisioning: OpenTofu (Proxmox VE) + cloud-init + Ansible, and the
                pinned dev container that carries the whole toolchain
bootstrap/      one-time cluster bootstrap: Flux install, SOPS/age key, host Gitea
platform/       platform CONTROLLERS (Flux HelmReleases / operator bases): kyverno, cilium,
                longhorn, external-snapshotter, cert-manager, externaldns, gateway, coredns,
                vpn-egress, monitoring, cnpg, keycloak, oauth2-proxy, kubevirt
platform-config/ platform CONFIGS — the custom resources of the CRDs installed above
                (ClusterIssuers, Gateway, Kyverno policies, KubeVirt/CDI CRs, Keycloak CRs).
                Split out because CRs and the CRDs they use cannot apply in one pass.
apps/           application tier, reconciled as dependency-ordered WAVES:
                  wave-0/ wave-1/ wave-2/   rendered container apps (see DESIGN-waves.md)
                  vms/                      KubeVirt VirtualMachines (non-gating tier)
catalog/        ServiceDefinition entries (the onboarding surface) + render.py
schemas/        ServiceDefinition JSON Schema + renderer contract
clusters/       Flux entrypoints + dev/ and prod/ overlays
conformance/    Chainsaw behavior/conformance suite + harness + coverage report
ci/             the gate as scripts (lint · schema · Kyverno L0 · L1 render · decision)
.gitea/         Gitea Actions CI running that gate on an in-cluster runner

Status

Roadmap phases 0–6 are delivered and deployed on the dev cluster; Phase 7 (prod) is not open — clusters/prod is a design-only overlay.

Phase Delivered
0 Foundations ServiceDefinition schema + renderer, Kyverno L0 gate, conformance harness, CI
1 Cluster bring-up 3-node k3s HA on Proxmox VE (192.168.1.50/.51/.52), Cilium, Flux, SOPS
2 Platform core Cilium · Longhorn · cert-manager (LE-prod wildcard) · ExternalDNS · Gateway API · split-horizon CoreDNS
3 Egress / VPN ADR-0015 node-level OpenVPN split-tunnel + Cilium egress-gateway steering + host kill-switch
4 Observability kube-prometheus-stack · Loki · Alloy · Alertmanager. Velero still blocked on OQ-BKP; image-automation authored but disabled
5 IaaS KubeVirt + CDI on real nested KVM; live-migratable RWX VM storage. The UniFi VM runs, but UniFi OS Server is not yet installed in the guest
6 Identity + CI Keycloak (Operator + CNPG) · oauth2-proxy forward-auth · Grafana OIDC · kubectl OIDC SSO with group→RBAC · in-cluster Gitea Actions merge gate

Conformance: 36 / 51 requirements covered (70.6%), 15 gaps, 1 safety-critical gap (R-STATE-02, Longhorn node-loss). Regenerate with ./conformance/run.sh --coverage-only; the full report is conformance/_artifacts/coverage/coverage.md.

The running narrative — decisions, root causes, incidents, follow-ups — is DECISIONS-LOG.md. It, not this table, is the authoritative record.

Working on this repo

Everything the gate needs is baked into the pinned dev container — do not install the toolchain on the host:

infra/devcontainer/dev.sh build            # once
infra/devcontainer/dev.sh run make -C ci gate   # the same gate CI runs
infra/devcontainer/dev.sh                  # interactive shell (sops, flux, kubectl, tofu, ansible)

The container mounts the repo at /work, your age keyring, and the sibling spec repo read-only so the spec-immutability check can actually run. See infra/devcontainer/README.md.

A green run prints MERGE GATE: PASS. The L2/L3 conformance layers stay SKIPPED unless CLUSTER_AVAILABLE=true — the static gate never pretends to have run them.

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